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1370694 No.1370694 [Reply] [Original]

Anyone have "road base" in their yard?
I'm trying to figure out how easily grass could grow through it.
The ground before hand would be levelled and the grass removed, but the road base would be put directly onto the dirt.

>> No.1370697

grass reclaims old roads all the time
why are you putting road base under your grass?

>> No.1370700

>>1370697
I meant I don't want grass there. This is way cheaper than concreting.

>> No.1370702

>>1370697
maybe some dipshit county road crew dumped what was left in their truck in his yard

>> No.1370704

my driveway is covered in it, with a black plastic weed barrier buried about 4 or 6 inches down, it works pretty well. 95% grass and weed free, except where those encroach at the edges.

>> No.1370741

>>1370694
>I'm trying to figure out how easily grass could grow through it.
Grass won't grow through it if there's no grass below it. It will however creep in from the sides slowly.

>> No.1370906

I have put down about 160 tons over the past year and a half here. I don't really have any grass growing through it. I can tell you though that if any sort of weed seeds get on top of it they will sprout, but that easily fixable with some roundup.

>> No.1370908

>>1370700
put down caseron to keep the grass from coming back

>> No.1370976

>>1370694
Put down a layer of contractors paper or carboard. Make sure to overlap the edges. This will suffocate the grass. If all you have over this is gravel if should be difficult for any new weeds to establish themselves.

>> No.1372353

>>1370694
Ffs. I work at a quarry and used to build roads.

Get 3" clean. (Clean not washed) and build road. Or throw down. Drive on it or whacker packer the shit out of it. Throw down 1 1/2" ab1/road rock/ base rock. All the same ahit but we need 50 names for some stupid ass reason. Get a 3 gallon spraywer or 20 gallon if 3 wheeler or pickup and spray the shit one time a year. No more grass. Not sure about the 3inch base but 90% of my job is loading county trucks so they can lay 1 1/2" road rock on the 700 miles of county road we have.

Hell, if you arent walling on it much and have access to machinery you can just dump 3inch and spread it. Spray anually.

All the other bs i was thinking roads.

>> No.1372398

>>1370694
Use shellrock, the salt kills everything and its fairly good with not being washed away. Theres a reason its used for roads.

>> No.1374148

>>1370976
Its a driveway not a garden you nitwit besides that newspaper only lasts about a year